Anti-Financial Crime Monitoring, Testing and Oversight Manager - Edinburgh, London

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent. Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs: interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them. Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers. Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

We are seeking an experienced Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) professional to join our Monitoring, Testing & Oversight (MTO) function. This role is central to supporting the AFC MTO Lead in delivering a robust Anti-Financial Crime assurance programme, ensuring the organisation maintains effective AFC controls, meets regulatory expectations, and safeguards its reputation.

As the AFC MTO Manager, you will contribute to the design, execution, and enhancement of a comprehensive monitoring and testing framework covering key AFC processes and controls across Aberdeen’s global operations. You will lead thematic and control reviews, assess the effectiveness of AFC systems and controls, and produce high‑quality, data‑driven reports to support senior management and Board-level oversight.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the AFC MTO Lead in delivering a robust AFC MTO programme across the Aberdeen Group.
• Execute a structured AFC monitoring and testing plan to assess compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and industry best practice.
• Conduct regular reviews of AFC processes and controls, identifying gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.
• Oversee AFC activities performed by business units and outsourced partners, assessing control design and operational effectiveness.
• Identify, document, and escalate issues or deficiencies, ensuring clear remediation plans and timely follow‑up.

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Experience conducting AFC, compliance, audit, or operational assurance reviews within the financial services sector.
• Strong understanding of financial crime risks and controls (AML, sanctions, fraud, ABC, etc.).
• Proven experience in control testing, sampling methodologies, and assessing the design and effectiveness of controls.
• ICA Diploma (or equivalent AFC/AML qualification) strongly preferred but not essential.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There’s more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you. At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business. An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do.

If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.